Andrew Wauchope
British general (1846–1899)
Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope (5 July 1846 – 11 December 1899) was a British Army officer who was killed while commanding a brigade at the Battle of Magersfontein during the Second Boer War.
Biography
Early life
Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was the second son of Andrew Wauchope of Niddrie Marischal House, located just southeast of Edinburgh in Midlothian, Scotland, and Frances-Mary (née Lloyd), the daughter of Henry Lloyd, Esq., of County Tipperary, Ireland. He received his early education at Stubbington House School and, in 1859, was sent to HMS Britannia to train as a naval cadet. The following year, he was posted as a midshipman to St George. Unhappy with naval life, he obtained his discharge from the Navy on 3 July 1862, shortly before his eighteenth birthday.
Army career 1865-1873
He resolved to enter the Army and purchased a second lieutenant's commission in the Black Watch in 1865. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1867 and served as an adjutant from 1870 to 1873. In 1873, he participated in the Second Anglo-Ashanti War, serving on special duty with a Hausa regiment. During this conflict, he was twice wounded and mentioned in despatches.
Cyprus 1878-1880
In July 1878, the United Kingdom took control of Cyprus as a result of the Cyprus Convention, and Wauchope was appointed governor of the Paphos region.
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